The Diebold Voting-Machine Hack

Warm John writes to mention a short article on Doctor Dobbs Journal about the Hack that couldn't be done. "Hacking a Diebold voting machine was the focus of Cigital's Gary McGraw's keynote at SD Best Practices. He discussed 'Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine,' a paper released by Edward Felten, Ari Feldman, and Alex Halderman of the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. 'The paper details a simple method whereby the Princeton team was able to compromise the physical security of a Diebold voting machine, infecting it with a virus that could change voting results and spread by memory-card to other machines of the same type.'"

Comments

Re:Money more important than a fair vote?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, those open source screws would never come off, and that open source flash card could never be removed, and no way would anyone be able to reboot an open source voting machine with open source malware, no sirree. Open source will save us all.

Golly, do you people lack reading comprehension or just critical thinking skills?

Re:The first person to do this is going to be stup

[Marxist Hacker 42]

And I'd believe that article exactly why? It's just sour grapes from the old media covering up for an old money bought and paid for election.